Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (MassMutual) has completed acquisition of The Hartford’s retirement plans business, for an undisclosed amount. The transaction will allow the acquirer to complement its retirement business, boost ...
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Bermuda-based Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company (Athene Annuity) has completed the acquisition of US-based Presidential Life, which markets and sells various fixed annuity, life insurance and accident and health insurance products. ...
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US commercial property and casualty insurance provider, CNA Financial has appointed Mark Herman as president and chief operating officer of CNA Specialty. Herman is taking over from Peter Wilson, whose retirement will be effective from 31 ...
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Network World - Cisco CEO John Chambers says he may retire in two to four years and named several executives who could succeed him, according to Bloomberg. There are as many as 10 candidates to assumed leadership of Cisco when Chambers ...
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Twitter launched an interactive map to shine a spotlight on which of the presidential candidates' tweets gain the most traction in different areas of the country. As election day nears, President Barack Obama and his Republican ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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Computerworld - With Intel CEO Paul Otellini looking to retire next May, the company's board of directors is already on the hunt for his successor. Now the question is who will make the chip maker's short list to take the helm. Intel's ...
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Computerworld - In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it. HP's CEO, Meg Whitman, is already deep into a ...
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People in the Sunshine State stood in line for hours to exercise their franchise, in some cases six hours or more after the polls had officially closed. Numerous causes have been cited, from a shortened early voting period to a 10-page-long ...
US-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed the acquisition of Heiser Insurance Agency (HIA), a US-based retail insurance broker. Terms and conditions of the transaction have not ...
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Canada’s private equity investment firm Onex has acquired USI Insurance Services (USI) for approximately US$2.3bn. With the completion of transaction, Onex, Onex Partners III and employees of USI own 100% of the company. USI ...
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A growing North East electrical business has completed work on the most technically challenging project it has tackled in its 40 year history. The 200,000 specialist lighting systems installed in the new Culture Centre at Newcastle's ...
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PTI reported that Tata Sons has appointed Mr Cyrus P Mistry as its chairman with effect from December 28th following the retirement of Mr Ratan N Tata. TATA Sons in a statement said that “The board of directors of TATA Sons recently ...
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Microsoft on Tuesday rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Analysts might have shrugged at the ...
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TATA Steel Limited has informed the stock exchange that the board of directors on December 14th 2012 announced the appointment of Mr Cyrus P Mistry as the chairman of the board with effect from December 28th 2012 on retirement of Mr RN Tata ...
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